Feature Overview

Submitted by eric on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 20:43

Mission

I want you to spend your time enjoying podcasts.

By actively engaging with users and frequently releasing updates, I am able to continually improve DoggCatcher in order to provide the best experience possible.

Highlights

  • Easy to find new podcasts/feeds
  • Fully automated download and cleanup of media files
  • Offline playback of audio and video
  • Categories for feeds
  • Updated frequently - 30+ updates during the past year
  • Active user community - 5000+ forum posts
  • Highly configurable
  • Variable speed playback (requires the purchase of a third party audio library named Presto)
  • Support for Honeycomb/ICS tablets

Add feeds by

  • Browsing Top 100 DoggCatcher feeds
  • Getting recommendations based on your feed subscriptions
  • Searching podcast and news directories
  • Importing for Google Reader/Listen
  • Importing from OPML

Integrated Audio/Video Player

  • Plays downloaded audio/video
  • Streams audio over network (wifi/cell)
  • Remembers play position of media file
  • Plays video formats supported by Android - Formats

RSS/News feeds

  • Supports RSS 1.0, 2.0, and ATOM
  • Displays inline images

Automation

  • Automatically updates feeds on a configurable interval
  • Automatically download new media
  • Automatically deletes media that has been listened to

Community and support

Playlists

  • Audio playlist for continuous play of new media
  • Video/News playlists for easy navigation of new media

Other

  • Battery/data plan friendly - can limit downloads based on network/power connections
  • Media download queue can be viewed and managed
  • Bluetooth support (A2DP/AVRCP)
  • Supports authenticated feeds (username/password)